Services for Professionals

What is SNIP?

A voluntary organisation based within the Royal Hospital for Sick Children,  SNIP is run by a committee of parents of children/young people with additional support needs and professionals working in the field.   Most of the SNIP staff have experience of parenting children/young people with additional support needs.

What does SNIP do?

There are three distinct areas of our work

• information, advice and support

• education and training

• consultation and policy

What can SNIP do for you?

We can provide you with information, either for your own reference or to pass on to families, on any aspect of additional support needs, including the following

• Medical conditions and rare syndromes
• Support groups - both local and national
• Benefits
• Education
• Research
• Play, leisure and sport

We can provide information about trust funds that might provide financial help for families for holidays, specialist equipment, conference fees, etc.  If you would like to download a Funderfinder form and guidelines, please click here.

We can offer training on issues such as

• Key-working / Care co-ordination
• Disability / equality
• Effective information giving
• The emotional implications of having a  child with additional support needs, including disability

SNIP representation on a number of local and national forums provides another channel for the raising of issues that concern professionals working in the field of special needs.

Referrals

If you wish us to contact a family directly you can refer them to us using the referral form below.  With the family’s permission, send us the completed form and we will try to contact them within five working days. There is no need for the family to have a specific enquiry as we will talk to them about their child and see how best we can help them.

Click here to download our referral form in PDF format.

Click here to download our leaflet for professionals in PDF format.

How to contact us?

You can send your comments by e-mail to snip@btinternet.com.  You could phone us on 0131 536 0583 (Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm, answering machine all other times).  You can write to us at SNIP, Freepost SCO5846, Edinburgh, EH9 0BR (no stamp required).

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